Improved washing-machine



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JONATHAN F. HORN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,964, dated June 23,1863.

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, JONATHAN F. HORN, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State ofMassachusetts, have invented an Improved Washing Machine .and I dohereby declare the same to be fully described in the followingspecilication, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which-,-

Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 a vertical section, and Fig. 3 a traversesection, of it, the latter section being taken through one of the framesD, to be hereinafter described.

In the said drawings, A denotes the water or washingliquor reservoir,across the middle part of which there is arranged a vibratory dasher, Bwhich, at its upper part, is hung on centers a a. This dasher is made oftwo ranges of horizontal bars, b b b, and two end pieces, c c, theybeing arranged with respect to one another as shown in the figures.Between the two ranges of bars b b there are two other strong tie-bars,which extend from one piece c to the other, and serve to receive andsupport a lever, C, by which the dasher is to be put in vibration. Thislever is loaded or furnished with a heavy ball or weight, d, at itsupper end. The momentum of this ball causes the dasher to force theclothes with great power and effect against either of the movable grids,racks, or wash-frames D D, during the process of washing with themachine. Along handle, E, may be jointed to the lever C, and serve agood purposein facilitating the operating of it. A person in order tomove the lever does the same by means of the said handle. Underneath thedasher and within the reservoir A there is a grated bottom rack, F,curved to the sweep of the bottom of the dasher. There is a movable siderack or open-work frame, D, at each extremity ofthe curved grid F, itbeing hinged to the grid or to the reservoir insuch manner as to becapable of being moved from an upright position against the end ofthereservoir into an inclined one, or in a direction toward the dasher, itbeing held in either position by means of two pins, d d, passed throughthe upper parts of its side bars, and into ledges e e, affixed againstthe inner surfaces of the sides of the reservoir or arranged therein asshown in the drawings. By applying each of the washing-frames D to thereservoir, as stated, such frame can be used when either is in anupright or in an inclined position. When in the latter position, theframe D not only performs its function in aiding in Washing the clothes,but it serves to keep the dasher from ejecting them from the machine;but when the frame D is in an upright position the clothes can readilybe either put into the machine or removed from it. So, when the frame isinclined the dasher may be brought up to it, so as to have its nextadjacentrange of bars b b in parallelism with the frame. Therefore,under this, position of the frame, the dasher will be better able tosqueeze the clothes and force the water through them than when the frameis upright.

In washing with the machine, the clothes are to be in the space betweeneach of the frames D and the dasher, in order that the dasher, at everystroke of it, may operate with one ofthe frames and with the curved gridbeneath it.. This operationof the machine is very advantageous inwashing.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s-

l. Theimproved machine,made substantially as described-thatis to say,with a vibratory dasher, a bottom rack, and two movable side racks,constructed, arranged, and applied together in manner and so as tooperate substantially as described.

2. In combination therewith, the loaded momentum lever or lever andweight, arranged and applied to the dasher so as to operate the same asdescribed.

JONATHAN F. HORN.

